🤖 Cultural Divide between Maths and AI

In today's edition: What's Shaping the Future of Data?

• 🤖Using generative AI to scale DuoRadio 10x faster

• 📊Defense Against Dishonest Charts

• 🦆The DuckDB Local UI

• 🤖How AI & Humanoids Will Revolutionize the Workforce

• 🤫 Anthropic: China’s stealing $100M AI secrets!

• 🌏 Singapore scores $1B Salesforce AI boost

• 🔬 Sakana’s peer-reviewed AI-authored paper

• 🎭 Alibaba just launched a new AI model called R1-Omni

• 💡 AI Tutorial:How to clone any website in minutes

• 🤖 AI Tools and Data Tools to checkout

How AI & Humanoids Will Revolutionize the Workforce

Artificial intelligence has become a lot more sophisticated and helpful over the last few decades. At the end of the 20th century, AI was still very rudimentary and couldn’t accomplish many tasks. Robots in the workforce existed within the pages of sci-fi books alone.

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Using generative AI to scale DuoRadio 10x faster

DuoRadio is an audio experience that improves listening comprehension through short, podcast-like radio shows featuring Duolingo’s beloved World characters. When DuoRadio first launched in late 2023, it quickly became clear that the feature had enormous learning potential—if we could expand it to more courses, languages, and learners…We scaled DuoRadio DAUs from 100K to 5.5M while cutting costs by 99%

Defense Against Dishonest Charts

Charts are a window into the world. When done right, we gain an understanding of who we are, where we are, and how we can become better versions of ourselves. However, when done wrong, in the absence of truth, charts can be harmful. This is a guide to protect ourselves and to preserve what is good about turning data into visual things.

The Cultural Divide between Mathematics and AI

The excitement around AI's potential contributions to mathematics doesn't always come with a nuanced understanding of what mathematics truly is and isn't. This post attempts to articulate these differences and hopefully build a bridge for better collaboration. Most mathematicians are not interested in AI creating new mathematics, but in processing and organizing existing knowledge

The DuckDB Local UI

The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension. The DuckDB project was built to make it simple to leverage modern database technology. DuckDB can be used from many popular languages and runs on a wide variety of platforms.

👨‍💻 Data Tools, Libraries

TinySQL

TinySQL is a course designed to teach you how to implement a distributed relational database in Go

FilePizza (GitHub Repo)

FilePizza enables peer-to-peer file transfers inside the browser.

AI News:

🧠 Google reveals Gemini robotics

Google has partnered with robotics developer Apptronik (which has previously worked with NASA and NVIDIA) to launch two AI models for robotics—Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-embodied reasoning (ER)—which are built on its “most capable AI to date,” Gemini 2.0, and are designed to help robots “perform a wider range of real-world tasks than ever before.”

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📸 Gemini Flash gets new image capabilities

Google released new experimental image-generation capabilities for its Gemini 2.0 Flash model, letting users upload, create, and edit images directly from the language model without requiring a separate image-generation system.

🤫 Anthropic: China’s stealing $100M AI secrets!

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is concerned that spies (particularly from China) are successfully stealing valuable “algorithmic secrets” from top AI firms in the US and has called for more help and support from the US government to intervene and defend against this risk—although he hasn’t specified exactly what help or support he needs.

🌏 Singapore scores $1B Salesforce AI boost

Following in the recent footsteps of Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, Salesforce is now planning—over the next 5 years—to invest $1B in Singapore, which is now ranked 3rd globally for AI funding. Salesforce believes that this $1B injection will “turbocharge” its AI system, Agentforce, which can power “every process, workload, and application with dynamic reasoning and decision making” through AI agents.

🔬 Sakana’s peer-reviewed AI-authored paper

Japanese AI startup Sakana announced that its AI system successfully generated a scientific paper that passed peer review, with the company calling it the first fully AI-authored paper to clear the scientific bar.

AI Tutorial

How to clone any website in minutes

1. Sign up on Gamma AI’s website.

2. Click ‘Create New AI’ and select ‘Import File or URL.’

3. Enter the website URL you want to copy, then hit ‘Import.’

4. Choose ‘Webpage’ as the format and proceed.

5. Pick a theme and wait for a bit. The website will be recreated, and you can edit and customize it as you like.

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